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You and I ought not to die before we have explained ourselves to each other. - John Adams Attribution: John Adams (1735–1826), U.S. statesman, president. Letter, July 15, 1813, to Thomas Jefferson. The Adams-Jefferson Letters, vol. 2, ed. L.J. Cappon (1959).

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